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This is not surprising. Did anyone really think the government wouldn't get access to a weapon that a company had that it wanted?
by giantg2 6mo ago
This is not surprising. Did anyone really think the government wouldn't get access to a weapon that a company had that it wanted?
- estearum 6mo agoYou're misunderstanding. The government is the one that said it didn't want/couldn't use this "weapon."
- pajko 6mo ago... as it has been designated as a supply chain risk.
- estearum 6mo agoYou have causality backwards USG signed a contract → USG wanted to coerce Anthropic into changing the terms post facto → USG decide to use supply chain risk designation to achieve this We know this for a fact because they simultaneously floated using DPA or FASCSA to achieve their desired coercion.
- coldtea 6mo agoThis is not surprising. Did anyone really think the government wouldn't lie?
- pajko 6mo agohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5g3z3xe65o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5g3z3xe65o
- HDThoreaun 6mo agoThe government has thousands of leaders with competing priorities. Different parts of the government doing different things isnt lying.
- coldtea 6mo agoAll of those parts are lying
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> The government is the one that said it didn't want/couldn't use this Technically, the Pentagon did. I don’t know if that’s legally binding on the NSA.
- jeremyjh 6mo agoTFA says the NSA is part of the DOD.
- rsfern 6mo agoIt is, but NSA reports to the director of national intelligence, not the defense secretary, so it’s unclear (to me at least) that SecDef’s opinion of Anthropic counts for anything here I guess DOD is large enough they have multiple parallel cabinet level positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
- derektank 6mo agoIt’s not as clear as that. The NSA director is also, traditionally, dual-hatted as the Commander of CYBERCOM and thus a flag officer reporting ultimately to the SecDef. The DNI is responsible for coordinating/funding national intelligence activities but ultimately a lot of day to day operational decision making tends to flow through the pentagon. They would definitely need to abide by DoD policy
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> They would definitely need to abide by DoD policy The policy in question is a statement by SecDef being reviewed by courts. I think it’s fair to ask whether DNI is actually constrained by that, or if it’s a judgement call.
- tren_hard 6mo agoI work for a completely unrelated fed agency, who doesn’t use Anthropic products, and we all received the email stating we couldn’t use them period.
- jeremyjh 6mo agoEveryone knows that Whiskey Pete is an incompetent clown and his decisions will be reversed as needed.
- flr03 6mo agoIt's quite obvious they just wanted to punish Anthropic, all this supply chain risk is a joke.
- estearum 6mo agoYes, but it's important that we point out their contradictions :)
- IAmGraydon 6mo agoI don't think they even wanted to punish them. This is more "art of the deal" BS from the chief idiot in charge where you make people think you're going to go to an extreme as a bargaining chip.
- dooglius 6mo agoNormal military procurement is going to go through process and use the APIs that Anthropic gives them. The NSA just has to has to achieve the goal of getting the weights out of the target computer.
- rozal 6mo ago[dead]
- skippyboxedhero 6mo agoAnthropic has been giving companies access to the model. I think people on here have fallen for it once again. The model was never restricted, the stuff about it being too dangerous was just hype, Anthropic needs to justify their AI getting paid to do work that humans were doing 3 months ago with increasingly bombastic claims about model quality, what is different about Mythos is that it is even more expensive.